Drive-By Truckers – When The Well Runs Dry (Ukulele)

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B-Side Tab by Al Byrne Tune full step down Am Em D Am C Dm Am
          Am
There’s a sacrifice you make

          Em
There are people along the way

             Dm                         Am
When there’s nowhere to run and there’s nowhere to stay

        Am
And the wheels still move

    Em
But won’t slow down

Dm                               Am
Even when you’re spinning in the same soft ground

              Am
And there’s a tear in her eye

              Em
Because she’s known you too long

        Dm                             Am
And she can’t tell the singer from the whorehouse song

         Am
When the well runs dry

        C
There’s nothing left to say

     Dm                      Am
Just throw up your hands and wail all day

    Am
And everything’s fair

              C
And you don’t like it that way

Dm
Something has to die

         Am
When the well runs dry

          Am
There’s a dancer I used to get

   Em
By giving her cigarettes

    Dm                          Am
She told me that I hadn’t quite hurt enough yet

     Am
So I let her do me wrong

    Em
But not for very long

       Dm                          Am
Then I put her in the mirror and I put her in a song

         Am
When the well runs dry

        C
There’s nothing left to say

Dm                      Am
Throw up your hands and wail all day

    Am
And everything’s fair

              C
And you don’t like it that way

Dm
Something has to die

         Am
When the well runs dry

C            Dm              Am
Sitting here at the top your will is getting weak

C          Dm                Am
You let my mind get fattened up

C       Dm          Am
Now I’m quiet and I ain’t supposed to speak

C          Dm                 Em
I’ll speak up when I’ve had enough

  Am
A singer we used to know

   Em
He let himself go

       Dm              Am
Played 15 minutes of a sold out show

    Am
And everybody laughed

       Em
In the aftermath

       Dm
And he never came back

      Am
No he never came back

         Am
When the well runs dry

        C
There’s nothing left to say

Dm                      Am
Throw up your hands and wail all day

    Am
And everything’s fair

              C
And you don’t like it that way

Dm
Something has to die

         Am
When the well runs dry
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